Cold Sword Perched Peach Blossom

Since it is to be used as bait, it should be in a place where it is easier to lure that thing to take the bait.

That night, Xuan Qing and Bai Rui greeted each other and brought Lin Rufei into the palace.Fuhua and the others didn't know what happened, and they were a little worried. Lin Rufei comforted them for a long time before they reluctantly agreed.After entering the palace in a carriage, Lin Rufei saw the palace at night.It looked a little different from the daytime scene. Under the vermilion eaves, there were red palace lanterns hanging everywhere, and sometimes there were maids or guards walking slowly by the roadside, but it was not as quiet as Lin Rufei imagined.

Now that he has a suspect in his heart, and Lin Rufei is the bait, it is natural that he should live as close to the target as possible.With this in mind, the room where Lin Rufei rested was arranged next to the third princess. Lin Rufei who lived in the room asked Bai Jinglun if he knew about it, and Xuan Qing shook her head and denied it.

"It can't be said that he doesn't know." Xuan Qing explained with a smile, "After all, outsiders want to enter the palace, the emperor must know, but I didn't tell him in detail, I just told him that there might be people in the palace at night. There are some clues, so I need to spend the night inside to find something."

Lin Rufei thinks about it too, Bai Jinglun loves the third princess so much, if he knows that Xuan Qing suspects her and the eldest prince, he will definitely be very upset.Xuan Qing was very clever and directly avoided this crucial question.

In summer, the sky gets dark very slowly. After the sun goes down, the sky also presents a light blue color. Looking from a distance, you can still see the gorgeous fire clouds in the sky.

Xuan Qing and Lin Rufei sat opposite each other in the room, with two cups of warm tea in front of them, Lin Rufei said: "Master Xuan Qing, why not go to rest first, it's still early in the morning, I'm afraid that thing won't come over."

Xuan Qing said: "Mr. Lin is sitting alone in the room, wouldn't it be boring?"

Lin Rufei said: "Boring?" He was a little surprised that Xuan Qing's thoughts were so delicate, and then he laughed, "No, I like quietness since I was a child, and I have long been used to being alone. Master Xuan Qing doesn't have to worry."

On Kunlun Mountain, rather than being at the bottom of the noisy mountain, he would rather stay alone on the top of the snowy mountain, wrapped in thick winter clothes, burn a pot of charcoal, and hold two or three books in his hand. one day.Occasionally I feel lonely, but as the days go by, I get used to it.It's a pity that the brothers and sisters have always despised his appearance and would often drag him down the mountain.

Xuan Qing said Amitabha, and said a few words to Lin Rufei, then got up and left the room, leaving Lin Rufei inside alone.

After Xuan Qing went out, she didn't take a few steps, and entered the room not far from Lin Rufei. As soon as she entered, she saw Bai Rui sitting lazily on a chair with a jug of wine in front of her, drinking boredly.During the day, Rui saw Xuan Qing came back, without raising his head: "You can rest assured that you can leave the young master of the Lin family alone in the room?"

Xuan Qing smiled and said, "What are you worried about?"

"If I'm not mistaken, the young master doesn't have a single trace of sword energy." Bai Rui squinted his eyes, "If such a cute little thing like porcelain is accidentally broken, don't you feel bad?"

Xuan Qing said: "Porcelain?"

During the day, Rui raised his eyes to look at Xuan Qing, and asked what was wrong with his statement.

"The prince said Mr. Lin is porcelain?" Xuan Qing smiled and said, "It's strange that the monk's eyes are clumsy. After living for so many years, the monk has never seen such hard porcelain."

During the day, Rui understood the meaning hidden in Xuan Qing's words, he put down the wine glass in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "What is the origin of this Mr. Lin?"

Xuan Qing didn't answer, said something about Amitabha, sat down opposite Bai Rui, closed his eyes and started to chant sutras.

During the day, Rui laughed angrily at Xuan Qing's appearance, and tapped his finger on the table: "The monk and I have been friends for so many years, why do you feel so attracted to the young master who has only known each other for a few days?"

Xuan Qing ignored him, completely treating him as air.

During the day, Rui sighed intentionally, put his head in front of Xuan Qing, almost touching the tip of his nose, and said, "The monk doesn't care about people anymore."

Xuan Qing half-opened his eyes, and only said one sentence, the wanton Prince of the Eight Realms immediately shut up, and he said calmly: "To be honest, the relationship between the monk and Mr. Lin has to be said a hundred years ago."

Bai Rui didn't believe this, but the monk couldn't lie, so everything he said was true.

Mr. Lin is only in his twenties, how could he have a relationship with the monk for a hundred years?During the day, Rui couldn't figure it out, but his interest in Lin Rufei grew a bit stronger.

Lin Rufei sat alone in the room and waited for the dark. The tea in front of him was almost used up, so he called the palace servants outside to change a new pot of tea, and asked what time it was.

The palace man answered with a low eyebrow and pleasing to the eye, saying that Xu time had just passed.

"Oh, it's Xu time." Lin Rufei was a little curious, "Will the guards outside stand guard all night?"

"Yes." The palace man replied in a low voice, "But around Haishi, a group of guards will be on duty overnight. What else do you need, my lord?"

"No, let's go down." Lin Rufei waved her hand.

After nightfall, the sky darkened, and finally it wasn't so hot, but it wasn't too cool either. After all, the scorching heat was rising from the ground that had been scorched by the sun all day, which made people feel a little stuffy.After Lin Rufei simply washed up, she went to bed, squinted her eyes and took a nap. The fire on the candlestick by the window flickered with the wind, until a strong wind suddenly blew out the fire. .

This is also convenient for Lin Rufei, he doesn't have to get out of bed to turn off the lights.Lin Rufei opened her eyes, staring at the dark room in front of her.Along with the darkness, there is still silence, but this silence is not absolute, and the sound of the windows being gently shaken by the wind can still be heard vaguely.I don't know if it's Lin Rufei's illusion, but he seems to have caught a strange subtle sound, as if someone gently tore something from another thing.This sound is not crisp, with some viscous, unpleasant feeling.But if you want to listen carefully, you will find that this is just your own illusion. In your ears, you can only hear the whistling wind and the swaying wooden windows.

Lin Rufei always felt that this feeling was a bit familiar. After careful consideration for a while, he finally found out when he had this feeling—when he saw the picture scroll of the third princess Mou Mou in his childhood during the day, he I once had such a strange sense of disobedience

If you insist on describing this sense of disobedience, it's as if a piece of wet and cold thing was pasted near the chest, and that thing was still making strange noises, making people's hairs stand upside down involuntarily.

Lin Rufei turned over from the bed and sat up the first time he felt this feeling. He carefully observed the windows and the room, trying to find out the source of the sound.But it was really difficult to find the source of the small intermittent noises at that time. Lin Rufei thought for a moment, then got up and went to the window and closed it with a creak, completely blocking the wind.

The room fell completely silent, and the strange sound became much more obvious, but when Lin Rufei realized where the sound came from, his movements froze.

It seems that what Xuan Qing said is correct, for that thing, he is indeed special, after staying in the palace for one night, that thing came to him.

Lin Rufei took a deep breath, slowly raised her head, and looked at the beam above her head.At this time, the room was dark, and everything was unclear, including the beams.However, Lin Rufei quickly noticed something strange on the beam...it was too dark there.Different from ordinary darkness, two black holes seemed to be opened above the beams, absorbing all the surrounding light. The two holes were one big and one small, vaguely showing the appearance of a human being, just lying like this On the top, silently staring at Lin Rufei under the beam.

When Lin Rufei looked at them, he felt a sense of horror as if he was staring at that thing for no reason.Seeing this scene, Lin Rufei wanted to call out to Xuan Qing who was next door, but as soon as his words overflowed his throat, the thing turned into a huge net and covered Lin Rufei's body overwhelmingly.Lin Rufei's sight was taken away in an instant, he wanted to shout, but something blocked his mouth firmly, he staggered a few steps, and fell directly on the soft ground next to him.

"Tianjun." It was the same voice as Gu Xuandu heard that night again, the ominous muttered in a low voice, as if cursing, one after another, it made Lin Rufei feel cold all over, "Tianjun... ...Tianjun..."

Lin Rufei pushed back in pain, he was about to suffocate, the thing forcibly pried open his mouth, and inserted something into his mouth.

"Tianjun..." The murderous thing seemed to only say this sentence, repeating it constantly, but with different emotions.

Lin Rufei finally realized what this thing was trying to do. He actually wanted to follow his mouth and forcefully squeeze into his body. His mouth was stretched to the maximum, not to mention asking for help, he couldn't even whimper. When I came out, I could only grunt a few times.If this thing got in, his fate would be similar to that of the third princess who was unconscious next to him.At such a dangerous moment, Lin Rufei forced himself to calm down. He took a deep breath, and no longer tried to break free from the control of the ominous creature, but touched the Xu Mi ring on his thumb, and struggled to get out of the Xu Mi ring. Inside, he took out the things he had prepared earlier.

It was a paper crane. When Lin Rufei released the ring, it uttered a sharp cry. The black shadow pressing on Lin Rufei shook violently as if frightened. Lin Rufei was delighted when she saw it, thinking it was afraid But who knows that the black shadow called "Tianjun" again, but there was some resentment and anger in this Tianjun, as if he didn't understand why Lin Rufei would do such a thing.

Lin Rufei's eyes widened, and she could hear the grievance in the tone of the murderer inconceivably.This thing is still wronged?I was almost being strangled to death by it... The black shadow had already entered Lin Rufei's throat, and it was about to continue to slide down. Xuan Qing, who had been silent beside him, finally came late. Those who came with him, and Bai Rui with sleepy eyes.

The two of them entered the room and gasped when they saw the scene in front of them. They saw Lin Rufei limp on the bed with a black object attached to her body, which suppressed Lin Rufei's struggle. Just about to force something into Lin Rufei's mouth.

Bai Rui reacted very quickly during the day, directly pulled out the blade on his waist, and swung his sword at the thing.The snow-white sword energy sank into the black shadow, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, without any reaction.Seeing that Lin Rufei's aura was getting weaker and weaker, Xuan Qing walked to the table a few steps, picked up the fire folder on the table, and blew a breath, the bright fire light filled the whole room.

As soon as the black shadow was illuminated by the flames, its body flickered a few times, and then fled from the window.Seeing this during the day, Rui immediately chased him out.Xuan Qing was not in a hurry, but walked to the bed and checked Lin Rufei's condition first.

Lin Rufei recovered from the suffocation, and leaned against the edge of the bed coughing violently. Because of the black shadow's actions just now, the corners of his lips were split open, and a few wisps of bright red blood were slowly dripping down his chin. .Xuan Qing took out the silk scarf and gently wiped off the blood stains on Lin Rufei's lips, and said worriedly, "Mr. Lin, are you alright?"

Lin Rufei shook her head: "It's nothing serious, won't Master Xuanqing follow? That thing doesn't seem to be afraid of sword energy."

"No need." Xuan Qing said slowly, "I know what that thing is."

Lin Rufei said: "What is it?"

Xuan Qing didn't answer, but just looked at Lin Rufei silently, her compassionate eyes contained pity that Lin Rufei couldn't understand.

Lin Rufei didn't understand, so she frowned and said, "Master Xuan Qing, what does this mean?"

"It's nothing, I just feel that Mr. Lin is suffering." Xuan Qing said.

Lin Rufei pressed the wound on the corner of her mouth with her fingers, hissed, and waved her hand indifferently: "It's just a small injury, it's not a problem."

"Anyway, someone will feel distressed when they see it." Xuan Qing stood up, "Can Mr. Lin stand up? Bai Rui's side should also have a result."

Naturally, Lin Rufei was fine, the thing didn't do anything to hurt him, so apart from a small wound on the corner of his mouth, he was more frightened.He was not a coward, so he recovered after a while, and followed Xuan Qing to the outside of the house, but he didn't expect that Bai Rui, who was supposed to chase the shadow, was standing at their door, his face was ashen, very ugly.

"Why is the prince here?" Lin Rufei asked strangely, "Did you lose track?"

Rui shook his head during the day and looked at Xuan Qing: "Did you already know?"

Xuan Qing clasped his hands together and said Amitabha Buddha.

"Stinky monk." Rui spat on the ground during the day, pointed at Xuan Qing and cursed, "You fucking knew it a long time ago." Then he pointed at Lin Rufei, "Aren't you afraid that that thing really hurt Lin Rufei?" Fei hands?"

Xuan Qing said flatly: "The monk has his own sense of propriety."

"Okay, in moderation." Bai Rui said, "I let you say all the good and bad things. I want to see how you explain it to my brother later." After finishing speaking, he gave a cold snort.

Xuan Qing made a gesture of invitation.

Bai Bairui turned around and went straight into the room next to the third princess. Lin Rufei didn't understand what he and Xuan Qing were arguing about. It wasn't until he went in and sat down and waited for Bai Jinglun that he learned about it from Bai Jinglun. What the hell happened just now.

During the day Rui did not chase the black shadow, he chased it out along the window, and followed the black shadow around the palace, who knew that in the end, he walked into the place where the three princesses were. At first, Bai Rui thought that the black shadow He wanted to be unfavorable to the princess, so he hurried into the house, but as soon as he entered, he saw the black shadow slowly attaching to the princess's body, and it just merged with the princess. smell.At this point, no matter how stupid Bai Rui is, he should understand.

And looking at Xuan Qing's unsurprised look, it seemed that he had expected everything a long time ago. Rui was so angry during the day, obviously feeling that Xuan Qing had put himself on the same side.

Lin Rufei heard the words, looked at the third princess who was still unconscious on the bed, and sighed: "So the prince means that the third princess did all of this?"

Bai Rui said: "Even if she didn't make it, it must have something to do with her." He said coldly, "The girl has grown up and has her own ideas. As an uncle, I can't control it." The meaning is that he no longer intends to help the third princess cover up, but even if he wants to cover up, I'm afraid he can't cover up. .

Lin Rufei looked at Xuan Qing again, and saw that his expression remained unchanged, as if he was completely indifferent to Prince Bai Rui's angry accusations.He wanted to ask Xuanqing what, but there were footsteps outside the door, and Bai Jinglun who came in a hurry pushed the door in and said, "What's the matter?" It can be seen that he is very concerned about this matter, and he came in a hurry.

During the day, Rui ignored Bai Jinglun's questioning gaze, with a somber face and refused to speak.In the end, Xuan Qing sighed softly, took a step forward, and softly recounted what happened tonight.The more Bai Jinglun heard it, the more ugly his face became, but he didn't say anything.But with his appearance, it was obvious that he was extremely angry.

"So you mean that Mou Mou made that thing?" Bai Jinglun said coldly.

"Yes." Xuan Qing responded.

"Then why didn't she wake up?!" Bai Jinglun said angrily, "And you didn't find anything strange from her at the beginning!"

"Your Majesty, calm down." Xuan Qing said, "The reason why we can't find out is probably because this thing is quite special."

Bai Jinglun said: "What kind of special method?"

Xuan Qing walked to Bai Jinglun's side, whispered something in his ear, Bai Jinglun narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his head and told the servants to bring a few nuns from the palace.

During the day, Rui stood beside him with a sly smile and said, "Hey, Master Xuanqing finally figured out a way?"

Xuan Qing didn't care at all, but smiled faintly at Bai Rui.

After a while, a few nuns came in, Bai Jinglun pointed and said, "Go and pull the princess up from the bed."

The nuns looked at each other, not knowing the meaning of the emperor's sudden order, but they followed the order and walked to the princess's bed, carefully pulling the sleeping princess out of the bed.The princess leaned softly in the arms of the nanny, unable to stand at all, but under the emperor's order, several nanny grabbed the princess's body from different directions and forcibly stood her up.

The house was brightly lit, and the princess was restrained and lifted by several people with her head down, like a powerless puppet.

At first Lin Rufei didn't understand what Xuan Qing wanted to do with this matter, but after he observed carefully for a while, he suddenly noticed the violation.It is this sense of disobedience that makes people's hairs stand up involuntarily.

Behind the princess who was forced to stand up, there was a black shadow left by the candlelight, but this shadow did not look like a princess at all, but like a group of ink stains smeared on the paper, appearing out of order on the ground.

Although the nuns didn't understand, everyone present could see clearly that the shadow behind the princess did not belong to her at all.

Bai Jinglun's face was livid, and he waved his hand to signal the idlers to retreat, and when everyone had gone out, he turned his head and asked Xuan Qing: "What's going on?"

Xuan Qing said: "The shadow of the princess was swallowed by other things."

"Swallow?" Bai Jinglun said, "Be more careful."

Xuan Qing said slowly: "The princess suddenly fell into a coma, but she has three souls and seven souls, and she is not poisoned, which is very strange. I didn't think of it at first, and it was only after Mr. Lin was attacked that I suddenly thought of it." One thing."

"What's the matter?" Lin Rufei asked.

Xuan Qing said: "I once saw a book in Nanyin Temple, which described a strange method, which is to control a person's shadow to control that person, just like a puppet being pulled by a string. I read this book After reading the book, I felt that this method was impractical. After all, shadows are not souls, how can they control people? So I went to my senior brother to ask, but my senior brother said... For people, shadows are equally important. This thing is born Just like the organs and limbs, if they are missing, big troubles will happen." He said, sighed, and said, "But my senior brother also said that there are very few people in this world who can control the shadow. If you can't pick one out of thousands of miles, don't worry too much."

Suddenly something happened to the princess and she fell into a coma. She had been lying on the bed for a few days, and no one would notice any difference in her shadow.

"So who controlled her shadow?" Bai Jinglun understood, and suppressed his anger in his tone. He obviously didn't want to believe that the third princess did it voluntarily, but felt that she was harmed by someone, "Mou Mou has been very well-behaved since she was a child, and she has never been in contact with any messy people, and as you said, there are very few people who can control shadows, so how could she be one of them?"

Xuan Qing sighed: "I hope so too, but I'm afraid..."

With a wave of his hand, Bai Jinglun stopped what Xuan Qing was about to say, and said, "Don't be afraid, you just need to find the truth."

Xuan Qing nodded.

Now the source of the matter has been touched, although the specific cause has not yet been figured out, but as long as it is traced along the veins, it will end soon.Bai Jinglun originally wanted Xuan Qing to investigate overnight, but Xuan Qing found an excuse that he couldn't continue tonight, and the rest of the matter had to wait until tomorrow night.

Seeing Xuan Qing's firm attitude, Bai Jinglun had no choice but to give up.

It's just that when the few people left the show, the atmosphere in the room was not very good. During the day, Rui didn't say a word from the beginning to the end. Judging by his expression, he didn't intend to join in, and just wanted to watch the show.Xuan Qing sighed more today than he did in a month, but there was nothing he could do, he could only coax Bai Jinglun and give him some time to relax.

Lin Rufei rubbed the corner of her mouth beside her, thinking about how to explain this strange wound to the maid.

After Bai Jinglun left, Bai Rui also got up and left, Xuan Qing sent Lin Rufei back to the house, Lin Rufei said: "Master Xuanqing can still sleep?"

Xuan Qing shook his head, after tossing and tossing all night, it was almost dawn, how could he fall asleep.

"Since you can't sleep, why don't you chat with me?" Lin Rufei said.

Xuan Qing said: "That's fine." Before the matter was settled, he didn't feel at ease leaving Lin Rufei alone in the room, if that thing came again, it wouldn't be a second.

Lin Rufei said: "Since that thing has found me, Master Xuan Qing promised me..."

Only then did Xuan Qing suddenly understand, and said with a smile: "So you are still waiting for me here. The relationship between me and the Bai family has to be talked about ten years ago. I happened to pass by Dajing at that time..." He had a smile on his face. Smiling, caught in the memories.

The author has something to say: Gu Xuandu: Someone dared to tear the corner of my little leek's mouth! !

Lin Rufei was expressionless: Who tore it up?

Gu Xuandu: ...

Lin Rufei: Why are you dumb?

Gu Xuandu: _(:з”∠)_